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ach living being uses different methods to satisfy its needs for food. In
this chapter, you are going to read about the tactics used by ants when
looking for food, about their communications and the competition
among them to get to the food. All the tactics tried by such a small crea-
ture to obtain its food shows, as in previous chapters, the greatness,
magnificence and power of Allah, the "Supreme Possessor of
Intelligence" Who has created them.
How is a "family" with a population in hundreds of thousands fed?
One of the most important things needed for survival of the colony is
resolving of the food problem, and each ant in the colony has its share
of this responsibility.
As they do in other aspects of their lives, the ants carry out system-
atic work in solving the nutrition problem. Old worker ants are sent out
as explorers to survey the land around the nest to find food resources
for the colony which has a population of hundreds of thousands (some-
times millions). When explorer ants find a food source, they gather their
nest mates around the food in numbers which depend on the size and
richness of the source. Ants solve the food problem by a very strong
communication network and their generosity, which never says "Only
me".

Ants That Feed Each Other
Ants of different species try not to get
in each other’s way while looking for
food. Each one determines a path for it-
self to get to the food source. If ants go

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